NYC Best: Jake Gyllenhaal, Erykah Badu at Afro-Punk Fest

Jake Gylenhaal will be performing for the first time on stage in the U.S. in "If There Is, I Haven't Found It Yet" at the Laura Pels Theatre. The play is directed by Michael Longhurst. Photographer: Elisabetta Villa/Getty Images via Bloomberg

Sunday Matinee

Can’t wait for the Metropolitan Opera to open? Try
dell’Arte Opera Ensemble’s production of Poulenc’s “Dialogues
of the Carmelites,” which ends with the mass decapitation of
the nuns in the time of the French revolution.

Jennifer Moore sings Blanche, who comes to terms with her
fears and joins her sisters on the guillotine.